U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, commander, U.S. Central Command speaks with members of the press from the Pentagon Press Briefing Room on April 22, 2021. (DoD photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jack Sanders)
Homeland Security Today: CENTCOM Commander: Drones Dropping Explosives ‘Probably Concerns Me the Most’
The commander of U.S. Central Command said that the recent use of a weaponized drone to attack U.S. forces with explosives underscores one of his greatest concerns in the threat landscape.
On April 14, a drone carried TNT near U.S. forces stationed at Erbil International Airport in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, according to the Kurdish interior ministry. The drone dropped the explosives but no one was injured in the blast — the first known attack of its kind on U.S. forces in the area.
“The UAS threat, the small-drone threat, the quadcopter less than the arm’s length of a human being, is what really probably concerns me the most in the theater, and this was an attack of that nature,” McKenzie said. “We are still trying to determine the attribution of that attack. We recovered part of it. We got good people looking at it, and we’ll eventually know where it came from.”
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WNU Editor: The part of the above post that caught my attention was the last sentence ....
.... Asked whether some Afghan cities could fall to the Taliban upon U.S. withdrawal, McKenzie called it “a future contingency that I would not care to speculate on.”
It looks like he is expecting some of these cities to fall.
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